Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] been talking about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We came here ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ to talk about you and I 've been talking about nothing but myself the whole time . |
| 2 | There 's very little room for the qualitative work I 've been talking about : it it is there it tends to get tacked on to an existing project when the sociologist is brought in to provide expertise on survey design or interviewing or to use a standard measure of patient ‘ quality of life . ’ |
| 3 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
| 4 | Erm the service continues next term with me starting and then Mike taking over half way through and what I 'll be doing is supplying the general two theoried two theoretic semantics that I 've been talking about erm two specific instructions in a natural language I can get what six |
| 5 | Davidson Davidson kind of claims this in semantics in natural languages which I suggested that you read , but Davidson puts the claim the other way round , that is there 's no more syntax than that structure needs in semantics and that 's just false , that 's just false because you 're not going to account for all the data I 've been talking about , about verb phrases . |
| 6 | ‘ So how do we avoid turning into those sort of pillocks I 've been talking about , Jim ? ’ |
| 7 | I now want to prove to you that this kind of evolution I 've been talking about , evolution by natural selection , at the level of individual genes , can not produce social cooperation . |
| 8 | In other words , these things I 've been talking about , map , if I may use that concept again from mathematics , they map to earlier feelings . |
| 9 | But I do n't think it really ever I mean there were quite a lot of initiatives like that you know of people thinking of different ways really of of sticking together to combat er you know what I 've been talking about which was smashing unionism and er forcing lower wages really onto the the already low paid , which er really seems to be what Thatcher 's all about you know in order to er curb inflation and create a very divided society where er half the population seem to have to live either on the dole or in in poverty really in in derelict bits of Britain . |
| 10 | I have to write what I 've been talking about . |
| 11 | Well , if you 're talking about the smallest sort of business , and you 've spent maybe two thousand pounds on your actual computer , complete with a printer and the floppy discs I 've been talking about , then you might expect to spend another five hundred to a thousand pounds on a basic set of software . |
| 12 | Now sir , he had continued acidly , gripping Mark by the ear , ‘ tell me , if I may be so bold as to ask , precisely what I have been talking about . ’ |
| 13 | The reader may well ask what I have been talking about hitherto . |
| 14 | I have been talking about experiences which affect both men and women ; what I am suggesting is that the role of the Weaving Mother is to spin a thread , a bond , from the ‘ raw material ’ proffered by the male . |
| 15 | erm , moving on , erm audio description in Scotland , no er since this , the last meeting , yes Cath and I have been talking about all that money , we had an entertaining day out |
| 16 | I have been talking about the different levels at which reason operates in relation to individual disciplines : we can take up stances within disciplines , across disciplines , and in being critical of disciplines as a whole . |
| 17 | I 'm sure that over the years , you 'll have er , gone through some of the experiences that Madeline and I have been talking about over the last five minutes . |
| 18 | But the range and breadth of coverage I have been talking about can not be done within the existing confines of Radio 4 . |
| 19 | Opposite adjacent this is what you 've been talking about the a the angle is n't it . |
| 20 | What do you imagine goes on in my head all night when you 've been talking about splitting up ? |
| 21 | ‘ You mean you 've been talking about — what was she called ? — Inez — the mother of Matthew 's children ? ’ |
| 22 | You 've been talking about doggy-dos I 'm gon na talk to you about my dog . |
| 23 | in those days like they do in the time you 've been talking about ? |
| 24 | Erm , I was going to mention , as Rob has done the increase in new complaints , which I think is somewhat welcome erm , we 're still taking a long time from the averages over the last twelve months , I think that 's just reflecting being out some days over the ones you 've been talking about , er , we 're down on actual stage one equipments in the month erm , we 're not quite sure why that is , mm it 's just the way things have panned out . |
| 25 | Now , you 've been talking about Donna 's birth , but I thought it was your own you wanted to find out about ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You 've been talking about wonder-boy Elliot , ’ she guessed , spotting his name . |
| 27 | do you think that maybe they could benefit from this idea that you 've been talking about today ? |
| 28 | At the moment if you talk to women , the women you 've been talking about , about going into parliament , I mean it 's a laugh , is n't it ? |
| 29 | I would suggest that initially one of the things we ought to be doing is making approaches to the private sector through their organisations where they exist and say , look we really have to begin to get into the kind of discussions that you have been talking about earlier between health and social work ; health , social work and the voluntary side to talk about the issues of planning and the issues of quality and the issues of the form and shape of services and what sort of developments are acceptable in client-need terms and what are not acceptable . |
| 30 | You have been talking about what we will be doing with it . |